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Scientists Worried that Human Brains Grown in Lab May be Sentient


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2019 Oct 28, 7:23pm   388 views  11 comments

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Some neuroscientists working with lab-grown human “mini brains” worry they could be experiencing an endless horror, with a conscious existence with no body.

At least, that’s the warning that a group of Green Neuroscience Lab researchers plan to deliver during a national meeting for the Society for Neuroscience on Monday, according to The Guardian. While it’s never been demonstrated that a mini brain has become conscious or sentient, the researchers believe that the risk is too great to continue using them.

Mini brains give scientists the opportunity to study neurological development and conditions in something more human-like than an animal model. While they don’t approach the complexity of a human brain, scientists have been able to make increasingly-complex mini brains for their work.

“We’re already seeing activity in organoids that is reminiscent of biological activity in developing animals,” Elan Ohayon, the director of the Green Neuroscience Laboratory, told The Guardian.

It’s that progress that has the neuroscientists concerned.

“If there’s even a possibility of the organoid being sentient, we could be crossing that line,” said Ohayon. “We don’t want people doing research where there is potential for something to suffer.”

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1   Patrick   2019 Oct 28, 7:25pm  

My mom died of a brain tumor in 2008.

Doctors at NIH were hoping she would donate her brain.

She was worried about such things as in the OP, so she wanted to be cremated, and that's what we did.
2   Ceffer   2019 Oct 28, 8:10pm  

Now they are bestowing victimhood to lab grown nerve organoids. Do they get their own pronouns?
3   Shaman   2019 Oct 28, 10:00pm  

Are they male or female mini brains?
Can we use one to upgrade Adam Schiff?
4   Ceffer   2019 Oct 28, 10:17pm  

Quigley says
Can we use one to upgrade Adam Schiff?

That would be inhumane and constitute nerve organoid abuse.
5   Misc   2019 Oct 28, 11:19pm  

So based on this line of thought, the entire scientific community should become pro-life.
6   Ceffer   2019 Oct 29, 1:18am  

Nerve organoids better not demand their own bathrooms, or it's 'hasta la vista' nerve organoids.
7   EBGuy   2019 Oct 29, 1:20pm  

Scientist Donald Hoffman out of UC Irvine is one my favorite "unconventional thinkers". He starts with evolution and natural selection to build out his theory of conscious agents. Look at how uncomfortable Shermer is during the interview. At 1:00:00 Hoffman talks about how there are no testable theories to relate consciousness to brain activity.
www.youtube.com/embed/vfMCn42RRfw?t=3602
8   Ceffer   2019 Oct 29, 1:59pm  

Shermer is just a smarmy oppositional defiant who managed to re-brand his personality disorder into a paying gig. It's a form of narcissism to draw attention to yourself by opposing everything and everybody in the room to assert a personal agenda. It has been demonstrated that Shermer's 'process' is irrational and arbitrary.
9   FortWayneAsNancyPelosiHaircut   2019 Oct 29, 2:04pm  

imagine the human slavery that will be ushered in when humans can be created in labs efficiently? value of life will seize to exist, people will play god, and wipe out human race.
10   HeadSet   2019 Oct 29, 2:10pm  

FortWayneIndiana says
imagine the human slavery that will be ushered in when humans can be created in labs efficiently? value of life will seize to exist, people will play god, and wipe out human race.


Humans were seen as cattle throughout history. The masses serving at the whim of kings, no different than how a poultry farmer treats his chickens. Didn't need labs to create disposable humans or play God, plain old uteri work just fine. The idea of freedom for the masses is a recent Western Civilization concept.
11   Al_Sharpton_for_President   2019 Oct 29, 3:41pm  

FortWayneIndiana says
imagine the human slavery that will be ushered in when humans can be created in labs efficiently? value of life will seize to exist, people will play god, and wipe out human race.

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